| Man who wore Hamas, Islamic Jihad T-shirts in London Jewish neighborhood pleads guilty to terrorist chargesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 14 Nov 06:0 | | From the London Metropolitan Police: A man reported to police after wearing T-shirts supporting proscribed terrorist groups has admitted offences under the Terrorism Act. Feras Al Jayoosi, 34 (02.06.87), of Swindon was observed on Tuesday, 8 and Wednesday, 9 June wearing two T-shirts in Golders Green in north London - one bearing the logo of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group, and the other with the Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades logo. Both are proscribed terrorist organisations. The sightings were reported to police, and officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) launched an investigation. Al Jayoosi was quickly identified as the person wearing the T-shirts, and was arrested at his home address two days later, on Friday, 11 June. Further enquiries revealed he had worn the Hamas Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades T-shirt in Swindon on Sunday, 30 May. He was charged on Wednesday, 27 October. Appearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Friday, 12 November, Al Jayoosi admitted to four charges of wearing an article, namely a T-shirt, in such a way or in such circumstances as to arouse reasonable suspicion that he was a supporter of a proscribed organisation, contrary to section 13(1) and (3) of the Terrorism Act 2000. Following the pleas, he was conditionally bailed, and will be sentenced at the same court on Friday, 17 December...Read More |
Arab media is reporting that a tentative agreement has been reached in the maritime border dispute between Israel and Lebanon.
This rumor has come from a single Lebanese newspaper, Al Anbaa. There hasn't been any confirmation as of this writing. While the agreement still seems to require approval from Hezbollah and Hezbollah won't agree without Iran, any agreement between Israel and Lebanon would be a very big deal. The US negotiator between Israel and Lebanon is Amos Hochstein, a close aide to President Biden and an expert on energy. A senior Israeli official told Axios last week, "Hochstein told us he is not going to present a proposal that both sides like, but the opposite — that both won't like. But if three to four months from now he sees the parties are not willing to take the deal, he would drop the whole thing and won't deal with this anymore." Lebanon needs access to gas fields desperately as its economy is in crisis. If this story about a tentative agreement is true, that means that the most successful American negotiators in making agreements between Israel and...Read More |
From Ian: Jews need to be united on a united Jerusalem This is the time for the entire American-Jewish community to unite to keep Jerusalem united, because Biden's move is about a lot more than the consulate. The Abraham Accords came from then-president Donald Trump making clear that there is no daylight between Israel and the US. He emphasized that lack of daylight with every step he took, from renouncing the dangerous Iranian nuclear deal, to recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights to formally recognizing united Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moving the US Embassy. Reopening the US consulate for the PA would be a destructive step on the way to undoing other moves courageously undertaken by Trump for Israel, America's closest and most loyal ally. It would be a sign that the Biden administration is purposely creating daylight with Israel again. It is understandable that the Biden administration would want to harm the Abraham Accords, which were an unprecedented accomplishment initiated by the president's predecessor from a rival party. But it would be completely short-sighted and would distance Middle East peace after significant progress was finally made. This move would isolate Israel in the international community and return to the intransigent Palestinian leadership the veto power that enabled them to quash all peace overtures by Democratic and Republican...Read More |
A presentation at the Jordanian pavilion at the Dubai Expo says that Jordan says there are three regions in Jordan: Amman, Aqaba and - Ramallah. في إكسبو الجناح الأردني
ثلاث مناطق أردنية
" عمان والعقبة رام الله "
♀️#اكسبو_دبي#الاردن pic.twitter.com/9TsJu36C8U — هلا العبادي (@HalaZAlabbadi1) November 12, 2021 This is a bit of karma since all Palestinian maps include all of Israel - now they can know how it feels!
The Arab world was more upset that the presenters misspoke about the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, saying it started in Syria and ended in Yemen, and because of that the company in charge of the presentations was fired.
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From Ian: Mark Regev: The Palestinians must acknowledge their role in the Holocaust CONSIDERING HUSSEINI'S shameful war record in the absence of a German occupation of Mandatory Palestine, there can be little doubt what it would have included had Hitler's armies reached the Holy Land. The Führer would have been keen to exploit Husseini's leadership of the Palestinians, dispatching him to Jerusalem to head a collaborationist administration dedicated to working with the Nazis on "solving the Jewish problem." Together, they would have been highly effective in doing so, with the Palmah's plans to wage a Tito-style guerrilla war against the Germans from the Carmel mountains having only symbolic importance, with no realistic possibility of preventing genocide. Sadly, today in the Palestinian Authority, Amin al-Husseini remains a respected figure, an honored founding father of the national struggle. Far from critically confronting evidence of wartime collaboration, Palestinians choose to pervert history. President Mahmoud Abbas speaking before the Palestinian National Council in 2018 asserted that the Holocaust was caused by the Jews' "social behavior, [charging] interest and financial matters." Abbas dedicated his 1982 doctoral thesis and a 1984 book to the mendacious proposition that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis. (Former London mayor Ken Livingstone was...Read More |
The shekel is very strong, and this bothers Zaher Abu Hamda, a Lebanese pundit writing for the relatively moderate Ma'an News. One might think that a strong shekel is good for Palestinians, who get paid in shekels, and it allows them to import goods at reduced prices. But that is way too straightforward an analysis for today's Jew-haters. According to Abu Hamda, the strong shekel is a direct outgrowth of Jews engaging in usury during the Middle Ages. Since Jews were so good at cornering the market on banking, they parlayed that into a monopoly on diamonds and sulphur before World War II, which then led to their success in high tech fields, which means a strong shekel, all using the same underhanded methods that Jews have always used. Makes perfect sense - if you are an antisemitic conspiracy theorist. The last paragraph reveals a bit more, though: The main reason for the strengthening of the Israeli economy is the security factor. For example, with the second intifada, 20 years ago, the shekel fell against the dollar to 4.5. Here, it becomes clear to us that the Israelis are buying security by any means, whether it is a truce with Gaza or the temptations of permits (for Palestinian workers) in the West Bank. Therefore, if we want to break Israel, we must think of ways to defeat the shekel and their economy, or at least weaken it, before thinking about...Read More |
From Ian: Sheikh Jarrah explains why Palestinians will remain stateless Palestinians maintain that Arabs have the right to live in Israel but deny the right of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria. A Palestinian state that is Judenrein is far worse than an apartheid state. None of the two-staters or supporters of the Palestinians care, but Jews are supposed to support their ambition. Palestinians complain about settlements, but did they really expect Israel to prevent Jews from moving to parts of their homeland while they plotted Israel's disappearance? Consider that when they rejected autonomy in 1979, there were fewer than 10,000 Jews in the territories. When their terror attacks destroyed the 1993 Oslo Accords, there were about 150,000. There were 200,000 when Arafat rejected the Clinton Parameters in 2000 and about 275,000 when Abbas walked away from former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's offer in 2008. In the years since then, the Jewish population has increased to 475,000, not counting the 200,000 Jews living in Jerusalem that the Palestinians also consider settlers. Do the Palestinians, their supporters and two-staters seriously believe those Jews are going to disappear or that any Israeli government will force them out of their homes as part of an agreement that, like Oslo, won't be worth the paper it's written on? The Arab states couldn't force the Jews into...Read More |
In 1936, an Indian Muslim group sent a letter to the British Viceroy there accusing Great Britain of anti-Arab behavior in Palestine. This Palestine Post article doesn't quote the original letter, but the response summarizes the wild accusations. More importantly, it refutes some lies that have remained even 85 years later.
First of all, although the letter doesn't say it explicitly, it broadly implies that Arab immigration to Palestine - non-existent before 1919 - had exploded after Jews arrived, with the Arab population increasing by over 50% in only 14 years - and most of those Arabs moved to be near Jews and the booming economy that the Jews brought.
Secondly, the response notes that rather than Jewish farming taking away from Arab farming yields, the size of Arab citrus fields more than doubled in four years. Again, this was probably due to improved farming techniques and increased opportunities for export. * * * * * *
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The anti-Israel crowd is going nuts over this tweet: There have been hundreds of angry responses and quote tweets, most over-the-top but few actually addressing the issue.
No, the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism cannot in any way make it illegal to say the word "nakba." Is the word "nakba" itself antisemitic?
Originally, "nakba" in the context of Palestine was coined by Syrian historian Constantin Zureiq to describe Israel's defeat of combined Arab armies. "The defeat of the Arabs in Palestine is not a small downfall – naksa … It is a catastrophe – nakba – in every sense of the word....Seven Arab countries declare war on Zionism in Palestine….Seven countries go to war to abolish the partition and to defeat Zionism, and quickly leave the battle after losing much of the land of Palestine – even the part that was given to the Arabs in the Partition Plan."
Nothing about Palestinian Arabs or refugees. The word described the shame of Arab armies losing a war to the Jews after bragging about their inevitable great victory. Zureiq intended to have the Arab world take responsibility for it mistakes.
Certainly, the original meaning of "nakba" could not be considered antisemitic. It was a word of shame and of resolve, but not of hate. It is not tied to Israel or Jews at all.
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